New book exposes Abraham Lincoln's secret fight...

[sparkchaser]

...against VAMPIRES!

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another mélange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln's life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author's decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln's documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince.

One word: awesome.

The book images are just perfect.

I already ordered my copy.

 

[Duamuteffe]

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was hysterical, but this one isn't grabbing me so much. His grasp of Jane Austen's style was terrific, but since he's not overwriting a book this time and is on his own plot- and style-wise, except for extending Lincoln's journals, I'm just not feeling it. Still, I have a feeling there's a lot more ridiculously entertaining tales from him yet to come.

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but if this sort of thing is in one's line, then one could do worse than to check out Wondermark.

 

[MoJoe]

I always thought that Abe Lincoln was a bad @$$. Would have been in a Mandom commercial if it had been invented back then. And he didn't have a beard. And if they had television. Other than that, Abe was Mandom material.